Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : Performed in the Years 1821-22-23 ... under th (Paperback)

Introduction; Explanation of technical terms; Official instructions; 1. Passage across the Atlantic; 2. Review of the geographical information obtained by the researches of former navigators on the coast of the American continent, in the neighbourhood of Wager River; 3. Return to the eastward through the Frozen Strait; 4. Hoppner's Inlet entered and surveyed by the boats; 5. Further examination in the boats for the purpose of connecting the shores of Lyon Inlet with that of Gore Bay; 6. Precautions for the security of the ships and their stores; 7. Many foxes caught; 8. Charts drawn by the Esquimaux; 9. Increased extent of open water in the offing; 10. Departure from Winter Island; 11. Remarkable instance of local attraction on the magnetic needles; 12. A journey performed along the south shore of Cockburn Island; 13. Preparations for the winter; 14. Various journeys to the Esquimaux stations; 15. Extraordinary disruption of ice in Quilliam Creek; Some further accounts of the Esquimaux of Melville Peninsula and the adjoining islands, and more particularly Winter Island and Igloolik; Vocabulary of Esquimaux words, etc.